[WSBARP] Landlord Question - Next legislative session

[Kary Krismer]

On 12/17/2020 2:35 PM, Eric Nelsen wrote:
> I have pushed back before about the righteous tone on the listserv, 
> about tenants spending their money on goodies and giving the landlord 
> the finger. But if I have $1000 to spend and the choice is between 
> taking care of myself or paying money to a landlord when the law isn’t 
> going to force me to, and my relationship to the landlord is based 
> purely on money, then hell yes, I’m going to spend it on myself. And 
> please note, that is the /proper/ response under invisible hand 
> theories: do the self-interested thing and it will all balance out: 
> the landlord is hurt but Netflix benefits.
>
It's fairly standard advice to people in financial trouble to pay for 
food, rent, utilities and if possible car payments before anything 
else.  The moratorium offered without any counseling advice turns that 
on its head.  And since it doesn't diminish the debt eventually they 
will need to deal with the consequences.

But my concern has been for those who could have paid rent but don't  
because of the moratorium.  They will eventually have to deal with a 
problem that would not have existed but for government telling them that 
it was helping them.  They may very well find themselves dug into a hole 
they cannot get out of that would otherwise not have existed.

Kary L. Krismer

206 723-2148



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